🎉Time for another #REESFridayFeature! Today, we're having a chat with MPhil student Tatyana Kekic... 🗨️'My research focuses on the history and legacies of #Yugoslavia, with a special focus on the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)...' 🧵

My latest piece for Balkan Insight on how Serbia with the new conflict in #Ukraine found itself between #Russia and the #West again. balkaninsight.com/2022/02/24/ser…

In defiance of this ignorant Russophobia, I shall continue listening to Tchaikovsky and pretending to have read Dostoevsky.

The new NLR double issue is now online! Featuring Grey Anderson on NATO, Tim Barker (@_TimBarker) on political capitalism, Aaron Benanav (Aaron Benanav) on the long downturn, Lily Lynch (Lily Lynch) on Serbia, and Ilya Budraitskis (Ilya Budraitskis) on Lenin. newleftreview.org

‘The protest coincided with a partial re-run of the polls – a token gesture by the government to defuse complaints about election fraud.’ ✍️ Tatyana Kekic: Why protests in Serbia won’t lead to regime change spectator.co.uk/article/why-pr…

'China sees Serbia as a gateway to Europe. As an EU candidate state, Serbia could become a conduit through which China could enter the European market. ' ✍️ Tatyana Kekic spectator.co.uk/article/why-be…

Russia's ally something, something. Kremlin's proxy something, something. politico.eu/article/serbia…

The audacity to call Novak Djokovic overrated by a reporter is just insane. The guy literally completed tennis by winning everything you can in our sport!

Only Serbs roast pork at protests

“The EU or Russia don’t have anything to do with us. We are fighting corruption, for which people have lost their lives.”  intellinews.com/balkan-blog-se…

The president offered his condolences for the dog Donna, who was run over during a protest. ✍️ Tanya Kekic buff.ly/4hyEH3M

Serbian hospitality x.com/sasaml68/statu…

"Lidija Hilje’s Slanting Towards the Sea is ostensibly a love story. It is poignant and evocative, exploring first love with an intensity so raw that reading feels like pressing on a bruise." ✍️ Emily Goulding trib.al/eoZsn36

Thousands of protesters took to the streets across Serbia, demanding elections. President Aleksandar Vucic says the protests are part of a foreign plot to oust him. 🎧 #InsideStory spoke with Mirko Dautović and Tatyana Kekic: aj.audio/InsideStory

'Sit-ins and marches have given way to nightly clashes between anti-government protesters on one side and pro-regime thugs and riot police on the other.' ✍️ Tatyana Kekic spectator.co.uk/article/serbia…

Protests enter a dangerous new phase in Serbia dlvr.it/TMYp8V